Okay the Cat is out of the Bag (unofficially). Everyone is working on Grant Requests for the next year and we know that they have failed in the past. That does not mean they/we should stop trying. Many Seti Users and Other concerned individuals have been working to insure Seti is still alive.

Last November when I got a reply from Eric (at the beginning of the Donation push) "I will keep the doors open as long as I can." That scared the living daylights out of me. I pushed and kept pushing until Eric said we are out of the darkness for a bit!

While I and others have been the "poster children" for Seti, I now say that "we" together have a better chance. I hate it when I and others have to go to work to insure the information gets out. "WE" (Yes Everyone) now have a better chance to help. To help others understand and participate.

Over the last year "Collectively," You the Users have generated over $200000.00 Seti Dollars and a large portion of Hardware which Seti desperately needed. Thank You!

Personally I know that November was the time for the push for Grants, composing the Budget and within the group that volunteered to help with the next Donation Push. Time to get ideas together... Eric Offered that those that wanted to help with should email him in time to get through his email filter... That request is still open (while it may be somewhat delayed at this point in time grant writing).

How can You Help?

* Team Captains, You can insure your active members know that Donations are needed. The more people that know the better, you now have a new team forum at Seti.
* Challenges from individuals to other individuals... The key would make it achievable!
* Hardware, there is still needed hardware. There are those that have access to large companies that could help that could write it off as a tax donation. You have to ask, find the person that can say yes or no...
* Matching Funds, for many companies if an employee can identify a tax deductible organization that the employees will donate to them they will match funds. Win, Win!
* Press releases, surely someone knows someone that we can make it more International.

My check is the mail (Good excuse most of time, but it is true). I have send an e-mail to Pete-Blurf regarding some out of the box suggestions( no answer yet). Also, if the auto deductions on a monthly basis would give us a green star, maybe more of us would consider this an option. I have been a fan of Mr Sagan since I first saw him on PBC and supported him. Up to this date, I have not been asked by Berkeley-e-mail to contribute. Something is broken.Pluto will always be a planet to me.Seti Ambassador

Monthly donations "do count" for those that desire to display a star. If you sent them to Pete, I am sure that they will get to Eric.

So that you know, the "offical announcement" has not went out yet. This thread is/was designed to start people thinking about Donations.

In the last year around $206 thousand was raised which has carried Seti to this point. I am aware that Eric has some interestings things to say about what the community has accomplished during the last year.

Thank You Everyone!

My check is the mail (Good excuse most of time, but it is true). I have send an e-mail to Pete-Blurf regarding some out of the box suggestions( no answer yet). Also, if the auto deductions on a monthly basis would give us a green star, maybe more of us would consider this an option. I have been a fan of Mr Sagan since I first saw him on PBC and supported him. Up to this date, I have not been asked by Berkeley-e-mail to contribute. Something is broken.

Although I donate to SETI I also never got an email...but then again, as most users, I do not need an email to tell me of the need for donations to keep this fine project running.http://boinc.mundayweb.com/teamStats.php?userID=14824

This monthâ€™s drive seems to be going pretty well: more than 1400 donations totalling over $80,000 so far, and the table shows an unprecedented 0.3% of participants having donated over the past year. Encouraging to see, but we can do better!

$106566 has been raised or about 22% of the goal. Some of the items needed with this Donation push are a proper Server for NTPCKR. That will be the start of the true reporting of what everyone has worked for. A portion of the budget is to be able to afford another administrator so that things can move forward. To maintain basic operations costs.

If you have not donated yet please take a moment to consider a Donation. Visa Gift cards that you might have received for Christmas work well.

I would think about donating but I can see that when information is sent back to Seti by my computer almost 2 months ago and still not processed then maybe I should just delete the program and end my participation..... There are some less than a week ago processed but the others ones haven't been

From Your statement there appears to be a problem that is a bit hard to define.
I think you are talking about pending credit.

While this is not really the place, Please ask your question.

Regards

Pappa

I would think about donating but I can see that when information is sent back to Seti by my computer almost 2 months ago and still not processed then maybe I should just delete the program and end my participation..... There are some less than a week ago processed but the others ones haven't been

What most people do not think about, if you go and look at the Fall 2007 Budget you will see one thing that allows Seti to keep the doors open. That is the Operations section of the budget. It pays the basic wages, the electricity, the bandwidth, the office space etc. You can see where Matt basically stated that in Tech News "Spring Forward" (Mar 31 2008). Somehow with everyones efforts towards Donations (money and hardware) we have kept the doors open and somehow manged to get the Alfa receiver done in time to keep workunits flowing. Donated hardware has solved a lot of issues with enough parts to get NTPCKR started (hopefully Eric will have more information about that shortly).

That said, we still have a ways to go to just keep the doors open and hope alive. Currently $118254.78 has been raised or about 44% of the Operations budget.